fish wrote:The Sleeping Giant wrote:Very sad if you believe what you have posted. In all my years of knowing farmers and livestock producers, I have never met any that don't treat their stock decently. Of course they don't give them hugs and kisses and tuck them in at night, but they don't torture or mistreat them either.
You'd have to agree it's a pretty interesting choice of words on his part though...
i dont think it is an interesting choice of words. i have close friends that are sheep farmers, and guess what, sheep die, all the time, for seemingly no reason. every time i go visit, and we do a tour of the paddocks, we find dead sheep. not through mistreatment, but through natural causes. they just die.
to just state that 260 sheep died on board the ship, of course that sounds terrible. but as has been pointed out, it is an extreemely small percentage of the overall numbers. i dont think the number of sheep deaths onboard the ship is a dramatic increase over the natural death rates in a flock (although, as usual i am happy to be corrected) i think his choice of words indicates, admittedly probably in a poor way, that the death rate on the ship compares favourably to the death rate out in the sheeps "natural" environment, ie the paddock